jra:albius:documents:ucam10q1.txt

From cimo@jive.nl Thu Apr 1 18:23:56 2010

Here is the Cambridge Periodic Report.

The start of the Cambridge contribution to ALBiUS has been significantly delayed due in most part to issues regarding the availability of matching effort resulting from funding issues in the UK. Â However the funding to provide the matching effort is now in place and we are now starting our contribution at full speed.

Staff:

Joern Geisbuesch has been appointed on the RadioNET ALBiUS grant (11 months starting 1 April 2010) Matching effort: Paul Alexander, Gabriel Grigorescu; effort as required: Rosie Bolton, Dominic Ford

Work Programme:

We take T0 = 1 April for these purposes The proposed work programme for the next year is as follows:

Review of existing approaches and implementations for wide-field polarization calibration
- report T0 + 1 month
Theoretical / practical analysis of the wide-field problem T0 + 3 months
- Proposed implementation developed
- present proposed implementation
- agree proposed implementation T0 + 3.5 months
Example implementation in CASA (to be confirmed)
- deliver code: T0+9 months
Test example implementation
- consolidated report: T0 + 12 months

Milestones for the next quarter:

Deliver report on current methods [1 May 2010]
Deliver theoretical analysis of wide-field polarization imaging/calibration problem [1 July 2010]

Meetings attended

None in last quarter

Expenditure

None as of 1 April 2010-04-01

Expected Person months

Until 1 July 2010: 3 mm Geisbuesch 0.5 mm Alexander 0.5 mm Grigorescu Until 1 October 2010 3 mm Geisbuesch 0.5 mm Alexander 3 mm Grigorescu